Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort : the Nobel Laureate and his unfinished creation / Benjamin Franklin Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Benjamin F., 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Martin Du Gard, Roger, 1881-1958.

Martin Du Gard, Roger.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Place of Publication:

DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, [2017]

Summary:

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, and his works, especially Les Thibault, a multivolume novel, were translated into English and read widely. Today, this close friend of André Gide, Albert Camus, and André Malraux is almost unknown, largely because he left unfinished the long project he began in the 1940s, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort. With the expert narration that distinguishes all of his books, Martin creates a blend of intellectual history, family drama, and biography.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Illusions

Chapter 2. Realities

Chapter 3. Hubris

Chapter 4. Retribution

Chapter 5. Vindication

Chapter 6. Triumph

Chapter 7. Displaced

Chapter 8. Discomfited

Chapter 9. Bereft

Chapter 10. Estrangement

Chapter 11. Afterlife

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501755460

1501755463

OCLC:

1191863614